Rebelle Rally 2017

Round 2 at the Rebelle Rally

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We can’t believe it’s all wrapped up! We can’t wait for next year. Here’s a little video of our experience in 2017.

We are so proud of all our teams.

Hoehn Adventures kicked off their journey to the 2nd annual Rebelle Rally October 12th, 2017. Over the course of 7 days, our competitors traversed 2,000 kilometers of stunning terrain from Squaw Valley to the Glamis Sand Dunes with nothing but a compass, map, and roadbook.

Dirt roads, sand dunes and elevation changes are just a few of the challenges the teams will have to face on this off-road adventure. Check in on their live locations, scoring, and checkpoints here:

Update 10/17/17 – Girls have entered the Dumont Dunes for the first portion of the marathon leg. They camped out last night without the luxuries of the base camp and had MRE’s for dinner.

Update 10/19/17 – Meli and Sabrina took a hit when a rock struck their oil pan and seized their engine yesterday. Unfortunately Goldie is out and will be towed back home to Hoehn Honda. This means Team 203, Jaimy and Lori have taken 1st place in the cross-over class with their Jaguar F-PACE!

Meli’s Day to Day Experience:

Like the rest of the Rebelles, Team 204 driver, Meli Barrett had lots of ups and downs.
Read her story here.

Great times with Meli & Sabrina!

About the Wraps

This year, Jo Hannah Hoehn worked with Nizhoni Ranch Gallery and their female master rug weavers to create wraps that complimented the incredible landscape and native culture of the Western United States, where the rally takes place. Each wrap emulates a rug from the gallery, like the one shown below!

From Meli: “Yesterday, at the almost end of our day (one more checkpoint, then Basecamp) we had an oil light come on going up a hill, we parked once we got to the flat top and let the car cool down. We had a long and arduous track, over 11 hours of rocky terrain so Goldie was working overtime. We had an emissions light the day before so we ran yesterday’s course without a/c on, thinking we could take some stress of Goldie…
While we sat for car to cool, so I could put oil in, we changed a tire that had been slowly leaking all day. When we left went a few more kilometers before we lost power and the battery light came on.
Team 155 Syndiely and Melanie gave us a jump and backtracked to go with us for our final 2km to make sure we made it to the green check point which is manned. We alerted them and the time, we thought we were having alternator/power issues…
Team 155 ended up offering to tow us, and did so, giving up their final points for arriving to Basecamp late. They towed us over 20km back to camp and over the finish. We finished day 5 in 1st place still but incurred some penalties for mechanical turn in and a missed checkpoint.
Goldie burst her little heart for us and I am truly heartsick! We cried, a lot, and people cried with us and the spirit of the Rebelle Rally is just that! Everyone loves our team, including Goldie, and we feel really supported. Our Emilyism of the day is that our rally is changing now… Mechanically, the engine seized so Goldie isn’t dead, she just needs a heart transplant per Karen Hoehn. “